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Starchy foods more filling than fiber, lab tests suggest

Moving away from grass-heavy ancestral diets may not be the reason for obesity epidemic

GRASSY DIET  Gelada baboons have a grass-based diet like that eaten by some human ancestors. But tests of gut microbes from the baboons and from humans suggest that a fiber-filled diet produces fewer appetite-curbing hormones than a potato-based one.

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By Tina Hesman Saey

- More than 2 years ago

Potato starch may be more filling than fiber, a showdown in an artificial colon indicates.